Boxing Returns Saturday Night At Tropicana Atlantic City, Tickets on Sale Now
Professional boxing is making a triumphant return to the Boardwalk in Atlantic City on Saturday, May 11
After staging profitable membership reveals within the Broadway district of New York City for the final yr and a half, Larry Goldberg of Boxing Insider Promotions is coming again to his hometown. The scene is the Tropicana Hotel & Casino, the place the showroom hosts a particular card that options a few of the most interesting younger expertise in New Jersey, New York and past.
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Junior middleweight JUSTIN FIGUEROA (8-0, 6 KO’s) is an Atlantic City product, who’s well-known to the general public for his exploits not solely in boxing however in different sports activities as effectively, notably in soccer, the place he starred at Holy Spirit High School and harbored ideas of enjoying for a Division I program. Justin can be an energetic member of the Atlantic City Beach Patrol.
As Figueroa progresses by means of the professional ranks, he intends, in his personal phrases, to “put Atlantic City on my back.”
Figueroa’s May 11 opponent within the six-round battle is the very powerful Antoni Armas from Maracay, Venezuela.
Junior featherweight JOHN LEONARDO (10-1-1, 4 KO’s) hails from Manalapan Township. He takes on FRANK GONZALEZ (12-5, 6 KO’s), who has been that distance in every of his final two fights. Gonzalez, who fights out of the Tampa Bay space, as soon as competed for the WBO Latino belt in addition to the WBA Fedecentro title within the bantamweight class.
In addition, legendary former heavyweight champion LARRY HOLMES shall be on hand to fulfill and greet followers on the May 11 present.
Here are the opposite bouts on the present:
8 Rounds — Welterweights
AVIOUS GRIFFIN (13-0, 12 KO’s), Chattanooga, TN vs. LESTHER ESPINO (8-5, 6 KO’s), Nicaragua
6 Rounds — Jr. Middleweights
DWYKE FLEMMINGS (6-0, 6 KO’s), Paterson, NJ vs. JONATHON HAMPTON (3-4, 1 KO) Gary, Indiana
4 Rounds — Heavyweights
PRYCE TAYLOR (3-0, 2 KO’s), Brooklyn vs. LAWRENCE KING JR. (2-1,1 KO), Rochester, NY
4 Rounds — Middleweights
JACOB SOLIS (3-0, 3 KO’s), New York, NY vs. BRANDON MARTINEZ (1-3, 1 KO), Tucson, AZ
4 Rounds — Lightweights
JASON CASTANON (`1-0, 1 KO), Brooklyn, NY vs. KAMARI BURNSIDE (1-0, 0 KO), Las Vegas, Nevada.
4 Rounds — Lightweights
KOBY WILLIAMS (professional debut) Brooklyn, New York vs. Kevin Hicks 1-2, 1 KO) Tazewell, Virginia This is the primary skilled boxing present on the Tropicana in seven years. So you had higher imagine it will likely be a festive ambiance.
This is the primary skilled boxing present on the Tropicana in seven years. So you had higher imagine it will likely be a festive ambiance.
Tickets are priced at $60, $100, $150 and $200, and can be found by means of TicketMaster (https://www.ticketmaster.com/boxing-insider-live-professional-boxing-atlantic-city-new-jersey-05-11-2024/event/02006076BA7B700C).
This occasion can even stream stay and freed from cost at BoxingInsider.com with Henry Deleon and Randy Gordon on Commentary.
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